Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Australia)

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Leader of the Opposition in the Senate of Australian Senate
Michaelia Cash March 2014.jpg
Incumbent
Michaelia Cash
since 25 January 2025
Style The Honourable Senator
Member of Shadow Cabinet
Opposition
Appointer Opposition Party Caucus
Constituting instrument Constitution of Australia

The Leader of the Opposition in the Senate is a party office held by the Opposition's most senior member of the Shadow Cabinet in the Australian Senate, elected to lead the opposition party (or parties) in the body. [1] Though the leader in the Senate does not have the power of the office of Leader of the Opposition (i.e. the leader in the House of Representatives and overall party leader), there are some parallels between the latter's status in the lower house and the former's in the Senate. [1] In addition to his or her own shadow ministerial portfolio, the leader has overarching responsibility for all policy areas and acts as the opposition's principal spokesperson in the upper house. The leader is entitled to sit at the table of the Senate, [1] and has priority in gaining recognition from the President of the Senate to speak in debate. Another similarity is that the leader typically announces changes to opposition officeholders in the Senate, including shadow ministers, party leadership and whips. [2] The leader also has some responsibility for appointing opposition senators to committees, a role filled by the Manager of Opposition Business and whips in the lower house. The current leader is Michaelia Cash, assisted by a Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, currently Anne Ruston.

Contents

List of leaders of the opposition in the Senate

Senate opposition
leader		Term beganTerm endedParty Leader of the Opposition
  Josiah Symon 6 June 1901 [n 1] 18 August 1904Free Trade George Reid
Gregor McGregor 18 August 1904 [n 2] 5 July 1905Labor Chris Watson
Josiah Symon 5 July 1905 [n 1] 21 November 1907Free Trade George Reid
Anti-Socialist
Edward Millen 21 November 1907 [n 3] 2 June 1909Anti-Socialist
Joseph Cook
Commonwealth
Liberal		 Alfred Deakin
Gregor McGregor 2 June 1909 [n 2] 29 April 1910Labor Andrew Fisher
Edward Millen 29 April 1910 [n 3] 24 June 1913Commonwealth
Liberal		 Alfred Deakin
Joseph Cook
Gregor McGregor 24 June 1913 [n 2] 30 July 1914Labor Andrew Fisher
Edward Millen 30 July 1914 [n 3] 14 February 1917 [n 4] Commonwealth
Liberal		 Joseph Cook
Albert Gardiner [n 5] 17 February 1917 [n 4] 30 June 1926Labor Frank Tudor
Matthew Charlton
Ted Needham 9 July 1926 [25] 25 June 1929Labor
James Scullin
John Daly 25 June 1929 [26] 22 October 1929Labor
George Pearce 22 October 1929 [n 6] 6 January 1932Nationalist John Latham
United
Australia		 Joseph Lyons
John Barnes 6 January 1932 [n 7] 30 June 1935Labor James Scullin
Joe Collings 1 July 1935 [31] 7 October 1941Labor
John Curtin
George McLeay 7 October 1941 [n 8] 31 May 1947UAP Arthur Fadden
Robert Menzies [n 9]
Liberal
Walter Cooper 1 June 1947 [34] 19 November 1949Country
Bill Ashley 19 December 1949 [n 10] 11 June 1951LaborChifley
Nick McKenna 11 June 1951 [37] 17 August 1966Labor
H. V. Evatt
Arthur Calwell
Don Willesee 17 August 1966 [38] 8 February 1967Labor
Gough Whitlam
Lionel Murphy 8 February 1967 [39] 5 December 1972Labor
Reg Withers 20 December 1972 [40] 11 November 1975Liberal Billy Snedden
Malcolm Fraser
Ken Wriedt 11 November 1975 [n 11] 28 September 1980 [n 12] Labor Gough Whitlam
Bill Hayden
John Button 7 November 1980 [43] 11 March 1983Labor
Bob Hawke
Fred Chaney 11 March 1983 [44] 27 February 1990 [n 12] Liberal Andrew Peacock
John Howard
Andrew Peacock
Robert Hill 3 April 1990 [45] 11 March 1996Liberal John Hewson
Alexander Downer
John Howard
John Faulkner 19 March 1996 [46] 22 October 2004Labor Kim Beazley
Simon Crean
Mark Latham
Chris Evans 22 October 2004 [47] 3 December 2007Labor
Kim Beazley
Kevin Rudd
Nick Minchin 3 December 2007 [48] 3 May 2010Liberal Brendan Nelson
Malcolm Turnbull
Tony Abbott
Eric Abetz 3 May 2010 [49] [50] 18 September 2013Liberal
Penny Wong 18 September 201323 May 2022Labor Chris Bowen
Bill Shorten
Anthony Albanese
Simon Birmingham 23 May 2022 [51] 25 January 2025Liberal Peter Dutton
Michaelia Cash 25 Jauary 2025IncumbentLiberal

See also

Notes

  1. 1 2 Symon was elected the party's leader in the Senate in 1901, when the party was in Opposition. [3] He remained leader when the party was in Government from 1904 to 1905 [4] and when the party again found itself on the Opposition benches. [5]
  2. 1 2 3 McGregor was the Labor Party's leader in the Senate (and Deputy Leader of the federal Labor Party) from Federation until the double dissolution that triggered the 1914 election. As such, he held the title Leader of the Senate when in Government, [6] [7] [8] and that of Leader of the Opposition in the Senate whenever Labor formed the Official Opposition [9] [10] during that period.
  3. 1 2 3 Millen succeeded Symon as Leader of the Opposition on 21 November 1907 [11] and became Senate leader of the new Commonwealth Liberal Party, taking up the office of Leader of the Senate upon when the party entered Government on 2 June 1909. [12] He continued as leader of the party in the Senate as it alternated between Government [13] [14] [15] and Opposition. [16] [17]
  4. 1 2 After Billy Hughes, the Prime Minister, split with the Labor Party in November 1916, his new National Labor Party Government survived with the help of the Commonwealth Liberal Party. The latter remained, technically, in Opposition for the time being. Therefore, until National Labor and the Liberals formed a coalition government on 14 February 1017, [18] Millen remained Leader of the Opposition. [19] Gardiner was Leader of the Opposition from 14 February and was referred to as such in the Senate that day. [20]
  5. ↑ Gardiner's tenure includes a period from 1 July 1920 to 26 May 1922 in which he was Labor's sole senator, but he was still considered Leader of the Opposition. [21] [22] [23] [24]
  6. ↑ Pearce was leader of the Nationalist Party in the Senate while it was in Government, and he continued in the role after the party entered Opposition. [27] He was elected Senate leader of the new United Australia Party when it was created as a merger of the Nationalists, other anti-Labor parties, and some Labor MPs. [28]
  7. ↑ Barnes was Labor's Senate leader before it left Government, [29] and he continued as leader afterwards. [30]
  8. ↑ McLeay was the UAP leader in the Senate in Government, [32] and continued as leader after the UAP–Country coalition fell. [33]
  9. ↑ The UAP/Liberals and Country Party did not form a coalition opposition from 1943 to 1949 in the House of Representatives. However, from 1 July 1947 until the parties won government in 1949, the Senate parties formed a combined opposition because the Country senator and two Liberal senators were the only non-Labor members of the upper house. Cooper served as leader, Neil O'Sullivan as deputy, and Annabelle Rankin as whip.
  10. ↑ Ashley was Leader of the Government in the Senate until the Menzies Government took power. [35] He continued as Labor's leader in the Senate. [36]
  11. ↑ Wriedt was Leader of the Government prior to the Dismissal, [41] and continued as Labor's leader thereafter. [42]
  12. 1 2 Resigned from the Senate while leader to seek a seat in the House of Representatives.

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